Video: Posting a course syllabus

Perhaps, the most common first thing that a teacher wants to do inside of the Moodle course is to post their course syllabi, and that's what we are going to do right now. The first thing you want to do is make sure that editing is turned on, so make sure you have hit the little button here in the upper right-hand corner, and then up here in the Header block, go ahead and click on the dropdown for Add a resource. And the first item here is File, so go ahead and select File and this will bring up the Add a file page inside of Moodle. We will give this file a name--in this case we are just going to type in "Syllabus"--and under the Description, we are going to go ahead and just type in "The course syllabus." Go ahead and scroll on down a little bit further and under the Content section, hit the button for Add.

Posting a course syllabus

Perhaps, the most common first thing that a teacher wants to do inside of theMoodle course is to post their course syllabi,and that's what we are going to do right now.The first thing you want to do is make sure that editing is turned on, so makesure you have hit the little button here in the upper right-hand corner, andthen up here in the Header block, go ahead and click on the dropdown for Add a resource.And the first item here is File, so go ahead and select File and this will bringup the Add a file page inside of Moodle.We will give this file a name--in this case we are just going to type in"Syllabus"--and under the Description, we are going to go ahead and just type in"The course syllabus."Go ahead and scroll on down a little bit further and under the Content section,hit the button for Add.

This is going to take us to our standard File picker inside of Moodle, and we areon the Upload a file link, and we are going to come over here to the attachment,hit the Browse button,and inside of the Chapter 02, exercise files we have got a copy of the Syllabus.doc.If you have syllabi in a newer format, either a DOCX or a PDF file or any ofthose other formats, those will be just fine as well.We will go ahead and just select our syllabus and hit the Open button.And we have all the rest of information set up properly here.

We will just go ahead and hit the Upload this file button, and we can see thefile is posted right here inside of Content area.Let's go ahead and scroll on down a little bit.In the Options section, the first option is Display > Automatic.When we click that dropdown menu there are a couple of choices available to us:Embed, Force download, Open, or In pop-up.I'd suggest we go ahead leave this to Automatic; the Moodle developers have donea great job of making this Automatic feature work very well,so when a user clicks on the link for your syllabus, depending on how theirmachine is set up, it will either open directly in the browser, or it will downloadthat file directly onto their computer.

Now we don't need to display the resource name, but we are going to leave theDisplay resource description checked.Go ahead and scroll down a little bit further, and we've got the Common module settings.For Visibility, we want to go ahead and leave this set to Show.Your two options are Show and Hide, and if you were building content ahead ofwhen your students were going to be looking at it and you don't want them toquite see it yet, but they're in your course and they are already working with the material,you can go in here and you can hide specific content and then come back into theEdit feature and show it back to them later.

In this case with the course syllabi we want to have that visible all the time,so we will leave that to show.We are going ignore the ID number for right now.Go ahead and click the Save and return to course, and there we go.We are taken back into our course, and if we scroll up just a little bit, we cansee how this all looks together.We've got our header graphic, and we have our News forum here that we are goingto go into in the future movie, and underneath that we have our syllabus.I'd like to have my syllabi be the very first item that's available to mystudents directly under the header graphic, but Moodle has gone ahead and it's putit down here below the News forum.

Well, it's very easy to do.If we look at this very first icon here, just to the right of the word Syllabuswe have a little crosshairs arrow.We can click and drag that.We are going to drag it just up above the News forum and drop it in place, andnow we've been able to reorder these items.To see what your students would see, we will just come on up here to theupper right and click the button for Turn editing off, and that's what yourstudents would see when they come into your class. They get the nice headergraphic here and a link to the syllabi, and they can click on that link tothe syllabi and their browser is going to automatically try and download andopen that file for them.

That's exactly what we want.

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